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Sigmund Freud Inspirational Quotes (246)

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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
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A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.
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The most ancient and important taboo prohibitions are the two basic laws of totemism: not to kill the totem animal and to avoid sexual intercourse with members of the totem clan of the opposite sex.
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Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as right in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as brute force.
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No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.
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When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
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Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.
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How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.
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Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature.
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In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense.
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One is very crazy when in love.
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Opposition is not necessarily enmity it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
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The price of civilization is instinctual renunciation.
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Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.
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The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
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The voice of reason is small, but very persistent.
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The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.
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All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love.
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The Mosaic religion had been a Father religion Christianity became a Son religion. The old God, the Father, took second place Christ, the Son, stood in His stead, just as in those dark times every son had longed to do.
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We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a caricature of a philosophic system.
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The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
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In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.
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After all, we did not invent symbolism it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.
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